What abilities should an excellent psychological counselor have?

Psychological counselor is a profession that deals with people's hearts. Based on the principle of helping others and helping themselves, it helps visitors to solve their inner doubts and troubles, so that visitors can slowly see their own thinking and interpersonal communication patterns, find better solutions to problems through their own wisdom, improve their social adaptability, respond to external stimuli with more mature psychological mechanisms, and maintain a healthy and normal mentality and good emotional experience. What basic qualities must a psychological counselor have?

Good interpersonal communication skills, be good at communicating with visitors, and ensure the establishment of good consultation relationship and effective consultation;

Good listening ability can not only concentrate on listening to the information expressed by visitors, but also listen to the ideas behind the visitors' language, capture useful information and grasp the key points that cut into the visitors' hearts;

Good language expression ability and generalization ability, can grasp the core of the problem, clearly express their understanding of the visitor's narrative, and help to respond effectively to the visitor and make an accurate and concise summary;

Have a certain sense of identity, be able to understand his feelings from the visitor's point of view, become an alliance with him to solve problems, respect and accept visitors without prejudice and authority;

Be sincere, treat visitors with a compassionate heart, know that visitors have their own unique experiences behind these problems, which are not formed overnight, safeguard the interests of visitors, let visitors feel the warmth and embrace of consultants, have a full sense of security and are willing to open their hearts;

Maintain healthy boundaries, do not establish other relationships with visitors outside the scope of consultation, maintain their own principles, and do not respond to visitors' needs without restrictions outside the agreed consultation time;

Have a sense of humor, can easily resolve the doubts and confusions of visitors, and maintain a good consulting atmosphere;

Respect and appreciate yourself, keep in good condition, and be enthusiastic about work and life;

Be open to change, be responsible for your life and make appropriate choices.